Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine. During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of Jesus Christ, the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr." as yet another pseudonym, particularly in his Second Ether fiction.
Series
Books
Earl Aubec and Other Stories
1993
Epic Pooh
1978
The Sword and the Stallion
1974
The War Hound and the World's Pain
1981
Starship Storm Troopers
1978
Elric
The Stealer of Souls
2008
The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century
1976
Stormbringer
2021
Byzantium Endures
1981
Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories
2013
The Time of the Hawklords
1976
Mother London
1988
The Bull and the Spear
1973
Blood
A Southern Fantasy
1994
The Dreamthief's Daughter
A Tale of the Albino
2001
London Bone
2001
Elric of Melniboné
1972
The Laughter of Carthage
1984
The Whispering Swarm
2014
The Champion of Garathorm
1973
The Steel Tsar
A Nomad of the Time Streams Novel
1981
The Weird of the White Wolf
1977
Firing the Cathedral
2002
The King of the Swords
1971
Stormbringer
1965
Warrior of Mars
1966
The Condition of Muzak
1978
An Alien Heat
1972
Duke Elric
2009
The Fortress of the Pearl
1989
Doctor Who
The Coming of the Terraphiles
2010
Elric of Melnibone
1995
The Brothel in Rosenstrasse
1982
Breakfast in the Ruins
1971
Elric
The Sleeping Sorceress
1971
Von Bek
1992
The Masters of the Pit
1965
The Golden Barge
1979
Elric of Melniboné
1972
The End of All Songs
1976
The Bane of the Black Sword
1977
Tales from the end of time
1989
The City of the Beast or Warriors of Mars
1965
Logorrhea
Good Words Make Good Stories
2007
The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
2022
A Messiah at the End of Time
1977
My Experiences in the Third World War
1980
Destiny's Brother
Book Two of Elric: The Moonbeam Roads
2013
The Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel
2002
The Knight of the Swords
1971
The Entropy Tango
1981
Fabulous Harbors
1995
Best SF stories from New Worlds 8
1974
Breakfast in the Ruins and other stories
2014
The Dreaming City
1972
The Vanishing Tower
1970
King of the City
2000
A Cure for Cancer
1969
The History of the Runestaff
1980
Daughter of Dreams
Book One of Elric: The Moonbeam Roads
2013
The English Assassin
1972
Earl Aubec
1988
The Eternal Champion
1970
Elric of Melniboné
2021
The Russian Intelligence
1983
The Queen of the Swords
1971
The Skrayling Tree
The Albino in America
2004
The Final Programme
1968
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
1976
The Jewel in the Skull
1967
The Jade Man's Eyes
1973
Nomad of Time
1981
The Dragon in the Sword
1986
The Chinese Agent
1970
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
2012
Jerusalem Commands
The Third Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet
1992
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction
2012
Tales from the Texas Woods
1997
Sojan the Swordsman/Under the Warrior Star
2010
Jerry Cornelius
His Lives and His Times
2014
Count Brass
1973
The Hollow Lands
1974
The Blood Red Game
1962
The Oak and the Ram
1973
Best SF Stories from New Worlds, Vol. 1
1967
Modem Times 2.0
2011
The Ice Schooner
1969
The Winds of Limbo
1965
Silverheart
2000
The Shores of Death
1966
The White Wolf
2022
The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle
1980
The War Amongst the Angels
1996
The Quest for Tanelorn
1975
The Prince with the Silver Hand
1993
The Distant Suns
1969
The Woods of Arcady
2023
Elric
The Revenge of the Rose
2014
The Vengeance of Rome
The Fourth Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet
1999
The Traps of Time
1968
The Cornelius Quartet
1977
Travelling to Utopia
2014
The Sword of the Dawn
1968
The Silver Warriors
1970
The Best of the Nebulas
1989
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
2020
The Land Leviathan
1974
Moorcock's Book of Martyrs
1976
Elric
To Rescue Tanelorn
2008
Moorcock's Multiverse
2014
Son of the Wolf
Book Three of Elric: The Moonbeam Roads
2013
Behold the Man and Other Stories
1984
Behold the Man
1969
Elric at the End of Time
1984
The Warlord of the Air
1971
Lunching With the Antichrist
A Family History: 1925-2015
1994
Elric
The Stealer of Souls
1998
Michael Moorcock
Death Is No Obstacle
1992
The Runestaff
1969
London Bone and Other Stories
2016
Lord of the Spiders or Blades of Mars
1965
Elric at the End of Time - The Graphic Novel
1987
The City in the Autumn Stars
1986
Gloriana
1978
Elric
The Return to Melniboné
1973
Elric of Melniboné, Volume 1
Elric of Melniboné, the Fortress of the Pearl, the Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and the Weird of the White Wolf
2022
The Revenge of the Rose
1991
The White Wolf's Son
The Albino Underground
2005
The Flying Sorcerers
1997
The Black Corridor
1969
My Experiences In The Third World War And Other Stories
2014
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
1997
Brothel in Rosenstrasse and Other Stories
2014
Snowy
1993
